The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-09

central reserve city and OF Kansas
Oity as reserve city under the pro-
visions OF the new law.
rooTrses OF APPROPRIATIONS.
A statement Of the footings of the
appropriation bills PISS led at the last
session Of Congress has been compi ed
by the clerks OF the Senate and House
and Committees ON Appropriations
today. 1t is IS follows: Agricultural
sl,O2s.73O; army, $2S,724,7lS; diplo.
matte and consular, 81 ,4S9, 942; Dis.
trict OF Columbis, "a ,265. 500; Indian,
1929. S97; legislative, 500, 701, 22l
Mlnt.ry Academy, $4l9, 936; navy,
US, 1853 49,; psnsions, $76,252, 500;
postoffics, $50 694 $50; sundry civil,
81, 1885,, 400; Mexicsn pensions, def
cheney, IS, SOC, 900; pablo printing, de.
ficiency, $l07 900; miscellaneous sp.
preparations, estimated, $3,500,0f0 0.
1. ia! OF actual appropriation, S247,-
1857 l44. The River and Harbor bill,
which was not signed, appropriated
S9,9l3 800, and the deficiency, which
did not pas, though it was agreed
upon in conference, carried an appro-
priation OF $4,275,O2S.
DEPARTMENT OF sUPERINTRNDENcE.
The Convention of the National De.
partment OF Superintendent will be
held at the National Museum on the
10Th instant, and three sessions will
be held daily on the 18th, 10th and
18th. The members Of this body are
superintendents OF schools in all par Is
of the country, and papers Of import
ance will be presented by Fred M.
Campbell, OF oakland, Cal. ; DIR. A. ].
Kickoff, Leroy d. Brown, Colum bus,
O.; j W. Holcomb, Indianapolis,
Ind; Wren Easton, Baton Rouge,
La, and Representative Mckinley, OF
OHIO. The officers are as followa:
Charles s. Young, Carson City, New,
president; N. @. Dougherty, Peoria,
Ill, vice president; Charles O. David.
son, Alliance, o., secretary; w. B.
Powell, this city, chairman Of Local
Committee.
COMPLAINT FROM LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS.
The Collector Of Customs at Toledo,
O., recently forwarded to the Treasury
Department a complaint received by
him from the keeper Of the West Sis
ter light, Lake Erie, and others, that
certain persons, during the past spring
and fall, have been stretching pound
nets for fishing on the reefs and shoals
Of the waters about West Sister Island,
contrary to the existing State law.
The matter was referred to the Solic-
itor of the Treasury, who has given an
opinion that inasmuch as there is no
United States statute forbidding such
fishing, the Collector has no author
ity to interfere in the matter. He sug.
gests, however, rs the island is a pub.
lie reservation, the lighthouse keeper
might be instructed to forbid any oc-
Cupation of its shores or of the watsrs
in it's immediate vicinity that may in
any way interfere with the objects of
the lighthouse establishment.
DECISIONS IN PENSION CASES.
The Secretary ot the Interior has d.
rected that all important decisions OF
his flee in pension cases, made dur.
ing the present calendar year, be
printed from time to time, and that at
The end of the year they be bound
into volume. Orders for this vol
ume received by the Public Printer
before the work goes to press will be
received at price 10 per cent. above
aud binding.
DESIGNS FOR WAR SHIPS.
Several designs have been received
at the Navy Department in answer to
4 circular sent out last August to the
naval constructors of the United
States and Europe through the De-
partment and Consular officers, offer
ng good price for suitable designs
or the two sea going double bottomed
srmored vessels of about 5000 tons
of sixteen knots speed |
With torpedo outfits aud effective |
MRS. BEcK's FUNERAL.
A preliminary funeral service, over
he remains OF the late Mrs. Beck,
vas held this morning at the residence |
If Senator Beck. The Rev. Drs.
Power, Butler and Bullock conducted
he brief services. The honorary pail
bearers were Secretaries Bayard and |
lamar, Speaker Carlisle, Senators
Blackburn and Vance, Admiral s. P.
Lee, Hon. W. w. Corcoran, and Hon.
edmund Rice, of Minnesota. The
emains were taken to the depot and
eft in special Car at $50 this after
loon for Lexington, KY, where the
inal services and interment will take
,lace. Senator Beck, Maj. and Mrs.
1oodloe, and a few very il innate
riends, were the only ones who &C.
the body from the city.
HE NEW SENATOR FROM WEST VIRGINIA.
Daniel B. Lucas, the newly appoint
ID Senator from West Virgins, was
Dorn in Jefferson county, then a por-
ion of Virginia, in 1885, and ranks
moDg the sblest lawyers in the State.
lie graduated from the University of
Virginia some twenty years later, be-
ng the class poet in his graduating
ear, and subsequently read law under
he late Judge Brockenbrough at Lex.
ngton. After his admission he prac-
iced his profession in Charlestown
nd Richmond, marrying in the latter
lace daughter Of Henry L. Brooks,
ne OF the leaders of the Richmond
ar, in 1854. He has always been
rominent in the councils of mis- party,
1here his name has become
anonymous with the grow
~ opposition to corporation
over. For ten years he has been
be bitterest political opponent of the
tandard Oil Company in his State
nd three times when he was the
hoice Of his district for Congress the
abroad and Standard Oil Company's
lfuences are said to have secured his
efeat He was a President elector
'om West Virginia in the Greeley,
ilden and Cleveland campaigns and
one of the most finished orators in
he South. In 1880 Gov. Mathews APP
ointed him Judge of the Thirteenth
judicial Circuit Court, but the APP
ointment was declined. The Univer-
ty OF West Virginia in 1888 conferred
pom him the degree of LID.
The Philadelphia Times, comment
u on the appointment, says: AS a
ale, legislative kickers, no matter